Episode 181 - The Cost of Salvation

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.In a small village in Germany, they have been performing a play depicting the final week of the life of Jesus for nearly 400 years. Some years ago, the actor portraying Jesus fell down during the scene when he was carrying the cross to Calvary. An onlooker was so overcome in the moment that he ran forward to help lift the cross from the actor’s back. Thinking it would be a stage prop, he only used one hand, but found he could not move the heavy wood. Afterward he met the actor who told him, “I cannot look like Jesus unless I carry a real cross.”Salvation is freely provided by God’s grace to all who believe, but it was certainly not free. The awfulness of sin required a great price that had to be paid for salvation. Jesus came into the world, knowing the price that would be required, and He willingly paid it.